CDO

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A form of collateralized debt obligation — A type of asset-backed security and structured credit product constructed from a portfolio of fixed-income assets.

Less commonScrabble 6

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nounCDO (plural CDOs)

plural CDOs

  1. abbreviationinitialismbusinessInitialism of collateralized debt obligation.

    These CDOs had been so sliced and diced that it was possible to claim that a tier of the interest payments from the original borrowers was as dependable as a stream of income on a ten-year US Treasury bond, and therefore worthy of a coveted triple-A rating.

    2008, Niall Ferguson, The Ascent of Money, Penguin, page 8
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    The problem is that the connection between subprime default rates, on the one hand, and CDO valuations and default rates, on the other, is so complex that it's very difficult to say in a simple sense that a rise in mortgage defaults will lead to a rise in CDO defaults.

    2007 June 28, “How bad is it?”, in The Economist, →ISSN
  2. abbreviationinitialismgovernmentInitialism of command duty officer.
  3. abbreviationinitialismbusinessInitialism of chief data officer.
proper noun
  1. PhilippinesabbreviationinitialismInitialism of Cagayan de Oro.

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